[TowerTalk] Phillystran

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

Use a Tupperware box, any good sealing plastic box, or sealing glass jar 
large enough to hold the tube(s). After use, just cap it and  put the 
tube in the box and snap on the cover.  I purchased a bunch a couple 
years before retiring in 97.  After over 20 years, ost of it is still 
good including partially used tubes.  That is way past the expiration 
date.  Glass jars with sealing tops (used for canning)  work very well 
on tubes that have been opened.  I've been able to get right down to the 
bottom on some squeeze tubes.
The ones without the acetic acid smell fail before the ones with the 
acid smell, but they still last a long time past the expiration date, 
They tend to separate out.

73

Roger  (K8RI)


On 10/26/2015 2:40 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> GE silicone caulk is pretty good. I use the 50 year rated stuff for 
> all kinds of weather sealing.  Comes in tubes like toothpaste or in 
> cardboard tubes that typically go bad before you use all of it. If you 
> have a tube of silicone rubber caulk to go bad, don't toss it out.  It 
> makes a great sand paper cleaner.  I use it in place of the product 
> sold for cleaning my belt sander belts.  It lasts longer and does a 
> better job and as it is repurposed trash it isn't too expensive.
>
> Patrick        NJ5G
>
> On 10/26/2015 9:57 AM, GMuller885--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>> Well folks I am back.
>>      I have now applied my Phillystran to the boom truss and the foe and
>> aft guys and clamped them as suggested. I also purchased Vinyl End  
>> Caps for
>> the correct size Phillystran. When I went to install the end caps 
>> they  were
>> very loose. What is the CORRECT way to put the end caps on the 
>> Phillystran?
>>   Gerald Muller K9GEM
>> GMuller885 at aol.com
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Roger (K8RI)


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